Kevin Tyschper, who owns DeEtta's Bakery with his wife Morgan, said he left a 20-year career in the supply business to follow their baking passion. (David Sharos / Naperville Sun)

In Chef's Choice, the Naperville Sun asks local chefs about themselves and their favorite meal in Naperville at a restaurant other than their own.

This week, we speak with Kevin Tyschper, 44, owner of DeEtta's Bakery in downtown Naperville, who says when he's not dining on his award-winning doughnuts, he likes a sandwich with a more Mediterranean flair.

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Question: When did you open here?

Tyschper: We opened up in March of 2014, but we've been in existence for eight years now. For five years we worked on a custom basis here in Naperville out of friends' commercial kitchens. We were sort of the gypsy bakers.

Tyschper: I spent 20 years working in supply chain organizations. I worked for an automotive company, Office Max's corporate headquarters and a Russian steel company. Ten years ago we began to look at things. My wife is a registered dietitian and we really liked to bake. It was kind of our passion. So we created this bakery. We had friends who had kitchens and it was all word-of-mouth. It just grew and grew, and we were fortunate to make a decision: let's do what we love.

Q: What's the story behind your business' name?

Tyschper: DeEtta is my wife Morgan's mother's first name. She passed away when Morgan was a freshman in college and she really loved baking, so this is kind of an homage to her.

Q: When you and your wife get time away from the bakery, where do you like to go?

Tyschper: We really like the Naf Naf Grill. It's a place we've been going to since they were one unit and opened up in an old Taco Bell on Ogden Avenue. The first week it opened, we were there.

Q: What do you order?

Tyschper: Their chicken shawarma and pitas are just fantastic. You can see the chicken on the spit behind the counter. It has a great balance of flavors and it's really moist when you combine it with homemade pitas, which are baked right in front of you.

Tyschper: It also comes with an Israeli salad with cucumbers and it's so very simple and so very fresh that you don't need a lot of things. It's like what we do. We don't add a lot of extra things. Just make it as simply and as well as you can.

Tyschper: Many years ago there was this food forum in Chicago called LTHForum. All these foodies would talk about new places. We (found out) something was going into this place in Naperville and I went. I've had that sandwich more than a dozen times.

Naf Naf Grill is located at 1739 Freedom Drive in Naperville. There's also a location at 4430 Fox Valley Center Drive off Route 59 in Aurora.